Film and Culture Flashcards
An interest in or concern for abstract, speculative, or fantastic
Antirealism
Composed or myriad integrated techniques and concepts
Cinematic language
Subject of the artwork
Content
Most common editing technique designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another
Cutting on action
Strive for objective, observed veracity, but does not mean they don’t tell stories
Documentary film
Move toward a subject, the subject grows in the frame, gaining significance
Dolly in
Joining together of discrete shots
Editing
Film about unfamiliar, unorthodox, or obscure subject matter and are ordinarily made by independent filmmaker, not studios, often with innovative techniques that call attention to question and even challenge their own artifice
Experimental cinema
Everything that a movie presents on its surface
Explicit meaning
Last shot of the screen gradually grows darker
Fade out
The means by which the subject is expressed and experienced
Form
The means by which a subject is expressed, analytical approach primarily concerned with film form
Formal analysis
Still image is shown on screen for a period of time
Freeze Frame
Categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them
Genre
an association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the given meaning conveyed
Implicit meaning
documentary film that seeks to educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them with particular ideas
Instructional film
Viewers shared experience of literally looking up at powerful figures
Low-angle shot
process by which an agent, structure, or other formal element, whether human or technological, transfers something from one place to another
Mediation
Structured into acts that establish, develop, and resolve character conflict
Narrative
the process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than an eye records it.
Persistence of vision
illusion of movement created by an event that succeed each other rapidly ( two lights are flickering side by side alternately but it appears as though one light is going side to side.)
Phi phenomenon
an interest in or concern for the actual or real, a tendency to view or represent things as they really are
Realism
an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion- picture camera
Shot
A shared public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a myth, or a familiar conflict or personality type
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